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Bill Salus has launched consultancy firm Paddock Consultancy, which aims to assist financial services companies with growth and management challenges.
New York based Salus (pictured) has over 30 years of experience in executive management in the investment and asset servicing industry.
Most recently global chief executive officer for Apex Fund Services, he has also held senior positions at BNYMellon, PNC Global Investment Servicing, KeyCorp and Security Pacific Bank and was a member of the ICI International Operations Advisory Committee.
Salus says: “Setting up Paddock feels like a natural step for me at this time. There is currently a great
- 19/10/2016
Clearpool Group, a service provider of electronic trading software solutions and independent agency broker dealer execution services, has joined the IPC Financial Markets Network.
IPC's community of financial market participants around the world can now access Clearpool's Algorithmic Management System and Clearpool's Execution Management System.
Several institutional investors, asset managers and commercial banks are currently using IPC's advanced connectivity, communications and collaboration solutions to access Clearpool's services.
"Our innovative trading technologies provide transparency and control to market participants in today's rapidly evolving market microstructure," says Ray Ross (pictured), chief technology officer, Clearpool Group. "We are delighted to join
- 19/10/2016
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed Timothy Keady as managing director of DTCC Solutions and Sales & Solution Delivery.
Keady (pictured) assumes responsibility for leading DTCC’s solutions businesses of derivatives, collateral, institutional post-trade processing (Omgeo products), entity data (Avox Data Services) and data products, including DTCC’s joint venture companies of Clarient Global, DTCC-Euroclear Global Collateral and Soltra.
He retains his current responsibilities as chief client officer for leading the company’s sales, relationship management, and marketing and communications functions.
Keady succeeds Donna Milrod, who is leaving the firm in November.
He will report to Mike Bodson,
- 19/10/2016
- 19/10/2016
Protégé Partners is to make a significant investment in Mill Hill Capital, whose strategy will be focused on market-neutral relative value trading in US credit.
The team will seek to identify asymmetrical strategies across securitised and corporate bond markets.
It concentrates primarily on CLOs, corporate financials, corporate transportation, aircraft ABS, esoteric ABS, non-agency mortgage-backed securities, and credit indices.
The Mill Hill strategy will employ a combination of asset-level fundamental analysis, market-implied data-driven proprietary cash flow models identifying long/short opportunities across asset classes, as well as a systematic approach to risk and portfolio management.
The Mill Hill Capital investment team
- 19/10/2016
Lawson Conner, a provider of fund launch services, a regulatory hosting platform and capital introductions, has appointed Michael Denoon-Slater as head of capital introductions.
He assumed responsibilities on 3 October 2016 and will be responsible for developing this new business across Europe, Asia and North America.
Prior to joining Lawson Conner, Denoon-Slater founded Strathspey Partners, a London based boutique advisory firm, which specialised in capital introduction and business development globally for alternative investment funds.
Denoon-Slater has over 20 years’ experience within the global financial sector and has spent the past 10 years working in prime services and hedge funds for Citigroup and Boyer Allan Investment
- 18/10/2016
Agecroft Partners has named Help for Children as the primary beneficiary of Gaining the Edge – 2016 Hedge Fund Investor Leadership Summit, taking place on 7 December in New York City.
Help for Children is a global foundation that provides grants to the most effective and efficient child abuse prevention and treatment interventions in six countries.
The foundation is supported by Hedge Funds Care and the broader alternative investment community.
Help For Children has a two-fold approach. The foundation supports proven methods that are effective in preventing and treating child abuse while also acting as venture philanthropists by supporting promising
- 18/10/2016
Dorsey, Wright & Associates’ John Lewis explains the virtues of using a relative strength methodology for a commodity rotation strategy and how it can give investors dynamic exposure to the commodities complex to generate excess returns.
Dorsey Wright & Associates (‘DWA’), a Nasdaq company and a provider of technical research analysis for more than 25 years, is applying its well-established proprietary relative strength methodology to the commodity markets.
In much the same way that DWA runs bespoke indexes that use a momentum factor to create sector rotation strategies within equities, it also has a proprietary model that applies the
- 18/10/2016
SALI Fund Services has appointed Jonas Katz as managing director and chief marketing officer.
Katz (pictured) will be responsible for expanding the firm’s relationships with investment managers and life insurance companies as SALI looks to expand its insurance‐dedicated fund (IDF) business.
This is SALI’s third key hire in 2016 following the appointments of director of due diligence Kris Studebaker and general counsel Chi Chang.
Katz joins SALI with more than 15 years of hedge fund and IDF industry experience. He most recently served as a principal with Forester Capital, a multi‐billion dollar fund of hedge funds in Greenwich,
- 18/10/2016
Laven Partners has appointed Nick Illsley as a director within the firm’s due diligence department.
With over 11 years of experience in finance of which more than seven years in the hedge fund space, Illsley (pictured) will work to address clients’ due diligence challenges within the current and changing operational and regulatory environment.
“We are pleased to add such an experienced professional to our team,” says Jerome Lussan, CEO and founder of Laven Partners. “Nick complements Laven Partners’ know-how in due diligence and enhances further the strength and depth of our due diligence process. Nick has a longstanding expertise
- 18/10/2016
One in eight (12 per cent) partners at hedge funds, private equity firms and other investment partnerships are now women, up from one in 10 (10 per cent) last year and the year before, according to DHR International.
DHR International’s analysis, based on data provided by the Financial Conduct Authority, shows that out of 3,509 partners at regulated firms, 405 were female in 2015. In 2014, there were 378 female partners out of a total of 3,666.
DHR International says the numbers suggest that hedge funds and private equity houses are outperforming the financial services sector as a whole
- 18/10/2016
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